RE: [Docstring-develop] Re: pydps - function signatures and Tools/compiler questions

[Tony J I. (Tibs) <to...@ls...>]

Jeremy Hylton responded:
> >>>>> "TJI" == Tibs  <Tony> writes:

s'OK - I answer indiscriminately to my usename and my bornname.

> The LaTeX source is the right place to make changes.

OK. I'll try to have a go "at some stage".

> If you've got updates, it's probably best to use the patch
> manager to submit changes.

Oh dear - another new thing to learn. Ah well.

>   TJI> 1. Is there a possibility that the compiler module might get
>   TJI> shifted from Tools into the standard library? It seems rather
>   TJI> too useful to be stuck "in the hinterlands".
>
> I think it's primarily a question of user demand.  If people are using
> it enough, it might move.

My thinking was more that it is going to be fundamental to pydps (or
whatever it gets called), and it's a pain if we have to get people to
install something else (which they might not have around - Tools doesn't
come with the Windows installer, I think).

>   TJI> 2. Should the various representation functions I'm working on
>   TJI> eventually be merged in as methods on the compiler nodes?
>   ...deletia...

> I think you can count on the organization of the ast classes staying
> basically the same.  The names of the classes and the attributes of
> their instances are a crucial part of the API.  Is that sufficient?

Hmm - maybe. I'll try to work up a "proper" description of anything I
think might benefit the innards of the compiler module as such, if I do
decide it isn't.

Tibs

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